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Andover Food Pantry: Clothing Sale ANDOVER — The Andover Lake Property Owner's Association, or ALPOA, is selling clothes to benefit families of the Andover Food Pantry. Clothing and items were donated from Dec. 6 through Dec. 10 and during a stuff-a-bus event on Dec. 12. After the clothing drive,...

Some local residents, as well as some very non-local residents, took part in a volunteer work party to spruce up the landscaping around Tolland's public schools on Aug. 3. Local volunteers, as well as more than 60 students from different countries who are taking part in a summer program called...

The Glastonbury High School girls soccer team is off to a good start this season. Through the first two games, the Tomahawks are 2-0, and have allowed only one goal. In the season opener on Sept. 11, Glastonbury defeated Northwest Catholic 3-1, and on Sept. 16, the Tomahawks defeated Bulkeley 3-0.

After the Rockville boys soccer team came from a 2-0 deficit to earn a draw with East Catholic on Sept. 16, coach Nick Cody said his team played with a lot of heart. "They picked it up," Cody said, adding that after the team took a 10-0 loss to East Hartford on the chin, the focus was on playing...

Griswold and Norwich have joined Sprague on the state Department of Economic and Community Development's 2015 list of 25 "distressed communities," and town officials are looking to leverage that negative designation into more funding assistance from the state for economic development and school...

The crisp scent in the air of fallen leaves means it's almost time again for Blue Slope Country Museum's biggest event of the year – Farm Fall Festival Tyme. This year's event will take place on Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4. The event will include all of the features that guests have come...

Suffield on the Green has been an annual event for nearly half a century, if not more, and although the name and some of the attractions have changed over the years, it is still the town's largest event, drawing people from all over the region. "We have more booths than ever this year," said Amy...

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Rockville High School's girls soccer team is heading into this season with the solidifying goal of making the state tournament. Under second-year coach Jean Graham, the team has four seniors and a large contingent of talented sophomores and juniors. "We want to be more competitive with the other...

Coach Maureen Perkins said the success of this year's GHS field hockey team isn't about replacing the talent of the four starters lost to graduation, but replacing the intangibles that those players brought to the team that won a Class L title (co-champions with Darien). "We graduated two midfield...

The Rockville High School Athletic Hall of Fame will induct eight new members on Sept. 13. Seven were former athletes, and one was a coach. Joining the 21 people already in the hall of fame will be Donald Beerworth, Amy Ferranti, James Hennessey, Stephen Mikulski, Charles Saimond, Dianne Schaefer...

Coming off of his third championship in 28 years of coaching Ellington boys soccer, coach Roy Gurnon is not in unfamiliar territory when trying to rebuild a team that can make a deep run despite losing several key players. The Knights lost 11 from that Class M 2014 championship team, including...

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The Stafford High School girls soccer team kicked off the 2015 season with most of their key players returning to play, reports head coach Rachel Freeman. The team started with a squad of 18 players -- 11 of them are upper classmen and eight of them started the majority of the games last season....

The annual Willington flea market has been a tradition for decades and occurs the first Saturday after Labor Day. "You can find almost anything and if you can't, you can make connections which lead you to the right people," Tish Ignatowicz said. She and her husband, David, have been the co-chairs...

Jason Newton has some names in his family tree that are familiar to local historians. Among them are Windsor founders Thomas Root, William Buell, and Joseph Loomis. But the most famous of his ancestors is Rev. Thomas Hooker, who in 1636 led approximately 100 Puritans from Massachusetts Bay to found...